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The New York Press blames amateur
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the water waste in Brooklyn.
Acceptable?
I should sny so; they nil snv the same,
too, when they get them. Who Is there
that would refuse such works of art when
they can get them for almost nothing.
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The Cleveland Plain Dealer says an
Xlucated colored man addressed the
Btudentß of Adelbnrt college the other
day. He told about -la experience In
his chosen profession, that of a lawyer,
asserting that on but one occasion had
he ever met with discourtesy at the
hands of white men during his legal
experience in his native state, Virginia.
This happened in a backwoods hamlet,
where the general ignorance of the in
habitants was some excuse for their
boorishness. In the course of his re
marks ho perpetrated an unconscious
bit of humor that brought a smile to
the students' faces and drew a laugh
from the speaker himself as soon as he
realized the suggestion in his state
ment. "I started out In my profes
sion with somewhat gloomy anticipa
tions," he said. "When I reached
Alexandria, where there were 7,000 col
ored people, everything looked dark."
It was at thds point that the smile ran
around.
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With many women the
monthly suffering Is so
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days positively insane,
and the most diligent ef
forts of ordinary treat
ment are unavailing.
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CHICAGO'S GIIEAT CANAL
COMPLETION OF ONE OF THE MOST
STUPENDOUS OF UNDERTAKINGS.
One of tho Groat Artificial Waterways of
the World Built Substantially by a
Single American City— Notabto Pflr Its
Small Cost—Bug by Mitcliiuery.
Mississippi Valley Representatives
in Congress, particularly those from
Illinois and Missouri, arc watching
with great interest the developments
in the Chicago drainage canal contro
versy. While the sense of the coun
try would doubtless be that this was
no time to ask for the abandonment
of tho project after the Chicago peo
ple have spent $34,500,000 upon it, it
is also true that Chicago played u
rather shrewd game iu neglecting to
secure proper Congressional permis
sion to create this great waterway un
til the work was so nearly completed.
It was the 21st of June, 1890, when
the trustees of the sanitary district
of Chicago secured a permit from Sec
retary Alger to turn iu the water.
The Missouri plea is that Secretary
Alger had no power under the Consti
tution to issue this permit. They
next maintain that even if he pos
sessed power over the subject tem
porarily, auy such permit becomes in
effective the moment that Congress
convenes, since Congress has exclu
sive jurisdiction over the lakes, rivers
and other navigable highways of the
United States. The Secretary of
War, the Chicago people say, has ar
ranged to send experts, as soon as the
canal is in full operation, to take
soundings of all the harbors in Lakes
Michigan, Hurou and Erie, and to see
if there is any reduotion in the lake
levels or in the depth of the harbors.
These soundings will be continued at
intervals for two years, and if at any
time it appears thut injury is done to
the shipping by diversion of tho
water, steps will bo taken to correct
it. It is probable thnt Congress
would then be asked to establish some
kind of compensating dams iu the St.
Clair chanuel. Iu this respect, too,
Chicago has been shrewd. It has
provided for letting out the water
from Lake Michigan, but, if it he
comes necessary to offset that by hold
ing the water back at the other cud,
the task will fall to the United States
Government.
Besides the important question ol
lake levels, with which the military
engineer department has to do, the
sanitary question is at the front.
This is the one that interests Mis
souri. The singular fact is that whilo
St. Louis is 365 miles away from Chi
cago, and takes its water from the
Missouri River and uot from the Mis
sissippi, it is grievously concerned
over the possibility of pollution,
while a series of towns in Illinois
whioh take their drinking-water out
of the very streams through whioh
this caual pours its current have ap
parently become fully rcoouoiled to
the situation. La Salle, Peru, Henne
pin, Peoria, Pekiu and Beardstown
are mainly depondent for their water
supply upon the Illinois River, into
whioh the Dos Plaiues flows. The
one Illinois town which continues to
protest is Joliet. Nor does its ob
jection seem wholly unreasonable. II
maintains that sufficient provision has
not been made against tho overflowing
of tho Des Plaineß River at high
water, and that, with the great en
largement of volume caused by spring
freshets, the city would be in danger.
Tho drainage people assert that their
regnlating works at Loekport, three
miles nearer Chicago than Joliet,
would take care of all this.
From many points of view this
drainage canal is one of the mosl
stupendous of human undertakings.
It is oertainly one of tho great arti
ficial waterways of the world, and yet
has been built substantially by the
corporation of a single American oity.
The sanitary district, however, is not
exactly coterminous with the eity
limits. It includes about forty square
miles of territory outside of Chicago,
aud excludos within the city territory
now ocoupied by 250,000 people. Ail
that part of the oity south of Eighty
seventh street, as far as One Hundred
aud Twenty-fifth street, gets its drain
age through the Calumet River, al
though it is now preparing to organize
a sanitary distriot of its own and con
struct a chanuel from tho Calumet
River to the drainage canal.
This artificial waterway is notable
also for its small cost. Tho years
between 1892 and 1807, when most of
the suppliiß were purchased aud
most of the work was done, were
years ot low prices for labor, for iron
aud for most other commodities
necessary. The exoavating machinery
especially designed for the under
taking has been muoh admired. Huge
cranes have been used, with arms 150
feet long, which would pick up a box
the size of a freight-oar at the bottom
of the channel aud deposit its con
tents high and dry 300 feet away. It
is thought that these cranes and
other drainage-canal machinery may
bo carried to the isthmus for tho
canal work there. For fifteen miles
the cuttings wore made through solid
rock, and for only thirtoon miles did
tho builders have the advantage of
soft earth. Three hundred thousand
cubic feet of water per minute is the
quantity it has been aimed to oarry,
but, aside from rook excavations iu
anticipation of the future, it has been
found that the present equipment
will carry 360,000 cubic feet.
Emerald Mine in New Hampshire.
Notwithstanding mining parties
have been trying to keep it a pro
found secret,it has finally leaked out
thnt a rieh beryl-emerald diamond
field has been found on a mica and
garnet tract on the edge of Spring
field, N. H., two and a half miles from
the Grafton, N. H., depot, on the' Co
ncord branoh of the Boston and Maine.
1 —Boston Traveller.
HOPE FOR NEW ENCLAND.
Eer Cotton Mlllt Not Hurt by Southern
Competition.
•'Thereltas been much talk of recent
years of tho growing manufacture of
cotton iu the South," writes John Gil
mer Speed in Ainslee's Magazine,
"and it has oven been intimated that
the inereaso in the number of spin
dles in the South was a menace to the
industry in the North. Undoubtedly
there was apprenension in Fall Kivei
or thereabouts six or eight years ago,
and some capitalists felt the oottoii
manufacturing property iu Now Eng
land was doomed. Such, however,
was the fear of the timid and tho
easily scared. The cotton industry
in New England is likely to keep on
growing and to remain prosperous so
long as tho world demands such a tre
mendous quantity of cotton cloth.
Manchester and the people of Eng
land will feel tho pinch of Southorn
competition long before Fall River
and Providence. But unquestionably
the South is to be congratulated on
the brave start that has been made in
what is in thai section a new industry.
There are one hundred millions of
spindles in the world. Of these,
17,570,000 are in the United Stntes,
and 3,500,000 are iu the Southern
States. So we see that whilo in the coun
try seventeen and one-half per cent, of
tho cotton cloth of the world is woven,
that in the Southern States twenty
per cent, of this is made. This is
more than a beginning. It is a brave
achievement. But it is silly and tijnid
to have fears for New England. New
England is thousands of miles nearer
tho cotton iields than old England,
and old England last year made forty
live per cent, of the cotton cloth of
the world, and in Continental Europe
thirty-one and one-third per cont.was
made. Those are the fields upon
which the Southern industry will en
croach, if it must encroach upon any.
But it is likely that the increased con
sumption of cotton cloth will always
keep up with the increase in the num
ber of spindles. There is no fear iu
the world, that is, no reasonable fear,
that Now England will not be ablo to
take care of herself."
WISE WORDS.
To do so no more is tho truest re
pentance.—Luther.
A good intention clothes itself with
power. —Emerson.
Every brave man is a mau of his
word.—Corneille.
Praise uudeserved is satire in dis
guise,—Broadburst.
Necessity reforms the poor, and sa
tiety the rich.—Tacitus.
Eaoh present joy or sorrow seems
the chief.—Shakespeare.
Reprove thy friend privately; com
mend him publicly.—Solon.
Wealth is not his that has it, buf
his that enjoys it.—Franklin.
When passion is on tho throne, rea
son is out of doors. —M. Henry.
Variety is the vory spice of life,
that gives it all its flavor.—Cowper.
Rashness is the faithful, but un
happy parent of misfortune.—Fuller
A proud man never shows his pridt
so much as whon he is civil.—Gro
ville.
To be poor, and seem to be poor, is
a certain way never to rise.—Gold
smith.
Never suffer the prejudices of the
eyes to determine the heart.—Zim
merman.
Duty and to-day are ours; results
and futurity belong to God.—Horaei
Greeloy.
Tho desire of appearingolover ofter
prevents our besoming so.—Roche
foucanlde.
A straight lino is tho shortest in
morals as iu mathematics.—Maria
Edgeworth.
The man has a right to do as ho
pleases, except when ho pleases to do
right.—Simmons.
By taking revenge, a man is but
even with his enemy; but iu passing
over it, ho is superior.—Bacon.
Tho foolish and wicked practice ol
profaue swearing is so low and meai:
a vice that every person of sense and
character detests and despises it.—
Washington.
In all the affairs of life, social as
well as political, courtesies of a small
and trivial character are the onos
which strike deepest to the grateful
aud appreciative heart.—Henry Clay.
The Doe und the Dmitiiui.
The strange friendships that some
times exist between animals that are
by nature enemies have a new varia
tion in the deep attachment between
a dog and a chicken. The dog had
belonged to a certain family in oity
days before the suburbs were in its
plan. Afterward tho attempt to raise
chickens was idle because of his se
rious objeotious that were made plain
whonover a stray chicken crossed his
path, unless that one happened to bo
tho little bantam hen. Finally all
the others were disposed of, aud the
two odd companions ooutinuod to spend
their time together. Tho little hen
sits iu perfect quiet while the dog
licks hor feathers, or she porches on
his back while he walks. At night ho
stays by prefereuoe in the chioken
house, aud the bantam perches be
side him,—New York Sun.
ltrltldh Sieß Train For l'rutoria.
The siege train which has been sent
to South Africa will play an important
part in the capture of Pretoria. The
train is manned by ovor 1500 officers
and men of the e.itillery, and its arm
ament and ammunition weigh over
5000 tons. There arc fourteen six-inch,
eight fivo-inoh, eight four-inch and
eight-1.7-inch quick-firing guns, with
gun carriages and mountain appli
ances complete, and 100,000 rounds
of shell.
BURR FOUND THE ASSASSIN.
Famous Lawyer Once CUearad illi Cli
ent of Murdon
"I was particularly interested," said
an old Washington lawyer the other
day, speaking of the Manhattan well
crime, "in the paragraph that describ
ed Aaron Burr's dramatic act in hold
ing a pair of lighted candles in the
face of a spectator In the courtroom
and shouting, 'Gentlemen, here is the
real murderer.' 1 do not quQstlcn this,
but I remember that Jere Clemens,
once a famous United States senator
from Alabama, told of a trial in which
Burr appeared for the defense of a
man charged with murder. My recol
lection is that the trial was In the
eouthwest. When Burr addressed the
Jury it was night. The guilty man
was In the room. He had been tbo
principal witness for tho prosecution,
but Burr had learned that this witness
was the assassin, and In closing his
address for his client he picked up two
lighted candles from the table and
holding them in the face of the wit
ness referred to, he exclaimed: 'Gen
tlemen of tho Jury, there Is naturo's
verdict. Now write yours.' At that
moment tho witness fled from tho
room. After Clemens told this story
he wrote an historical novel called
'The Rivals; or, The Times of Hamil
ton and Burr.' In that book he wove
the incident into one of the chapters.
The book is out of print and has been
for many years. But it had a great
sale, particularly in the south, before
the civil war, for Clemens was a typi
cal southern orator, and a man of
wonderful personal magnetism. The
object of the novel was to make Burr
a hero, and to besmirch Hamilton's
character. In one chapter where Burr
was high in tho esteem of Washington,
the latter Is represented as reading a
letter from Hamilton in which Hamil
ton detailed some scandalous gossip
(about Burr. Burr was standing behind
Washington during the reading of the
letter. Washington incensed at the
contents of tli6 letter, turned quickly
and saw Burr, to whom he said: 'How
daro you read my letter over my
shoulder?' Burr, as Clemens repre
sents, stung to the quick, drew him
self up and replied with all the haut
eur of his nature; 'When your majes
ty addresses such an inquiry to me in
the manner you have, tho only reply
deceny can prompt is, Aaron Burr
dares to do anything.' This, Clemens
avers, was the cause of the break be
tween Washington and Burr."
Abaant-Mlnded.
It was an electric car, and a man
was sitting between two women. The
man left the car, and as he passed
out an umbrella slid from the seat
toward the floor and woman No. 1.
She caught It, rushed to tho door, had
the car stopped and told the conductor
to call the man back. Tho man, how
ever,declined to take what was not his,
and co the good Samaritan, leaving the
"watershed" In the conductor's hands,
regained her seat. Meantime woman
No. 2, who had seen and heard the
whole performance, suddenly came out
of her trance and exclaimed, "Where is
my umbrella?" You can lmaglno the
rest of the tale; but it was very funny
to see It all.—Milford Journal.
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LAKES FAR ABOVE SEA LEVEL.
Mysterious Rodies of Wnter Found In
tho Cordilleras.
From Crucero Alto, tho highest town
in the world, the Southern railroad of
Peru drops into Lake Lagunillaa, or
lake region of the Cordilleras, where,
group of large lakes of very cold
pure water without inlet or outlet,
says the Boston Journal. They re
ceive the drainage of the surround
ing hills, and conceal it some
where, but there is no visible means of
its escape. A fringe of ice forms
around t.ho edges of the lakes every
night the year round, yot they contain
an excellent variety of fish called the
pejerray, which is caught near tii9
shore and sold at Puma and in other
neighboring towns. Tho two largest
lakes, Sarachocha and Cachipascana,
with several smaller ones in the same
neighborhood, are owned by the family
of Mr. Romania of Arequipa, who has
Just been elected president of Peru.
He owns immense tracts of land in
this locality, with thousands of sheep,
cattle, lamas, alpacas and vicunas,
which are herded upon it. A curious
phenomenon about the lakes is that
they keep at the same level all the
time, regardless of dry and rainy sea
sons. No amount of rain will make
any difference with their depth,
however, in the center i 3 unknown.
And this adds to the awe and mystery
with which they are regarded by the
Indians. There are no boats upon the
lakes except a few small balsas, or
rafts, made of bundles of straw, which
keep very close to the shore for fear
of being drawn into tho whirlpools
that are said to exist in the center.
There is some foundation for this fear,
for only two or three years ago a
balsa containing five men disappeared
in the darkness, and it was never heard
of again. Of course, it may havo been
tipped over and its occupants have
been paralyzed by tho cold water in
an ordinary way, but their bodies were
never recovered, nor did tho balsa
ever float to shore. Therefore the peo
ple think the whole party was lured
into a maelstrom and swallowed up
by the mysterious waters. Tho whirl
pool near the center of Lake Popo,
which receives the waters of Lake
Titicaea, is well known, and hundreds
of men have lost their lives by ven
turing too near It. Boats tfiat are
drawn into the current are whirled
around swiftly a few times and then
disappear. For the protection of navi
gators the government of Bolivia has
anchored a lot of buoys in Lake Popo,
and boatmen who observe them are in
no danger. There is supposed to be
an underground outflow from all these
lakes. It is claimed that articles which
have been thrown into their waters
have afterwards been picked up on the
seacoast near Africa, and careful ob
servers say that on the beach in that
locality are frequently found corn
stalks, reeds and other debris which
do not grow on the coast, but are found
in great abundance among the interior
lakes.
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